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MODE 0E ATIAGHING PICTURES T0 FRAMES.

STEDMAN W. HAN'KS, or LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 59,836, dated November 20, 1866; antedateri November 11, 1866.

, SPECIFICATION.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Beit known that I, STEDMAN W. HANKS, of Lowell,'Middlesex county, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Method of Attaching Pictures to Frames by the -use of metallic clasps and springs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In the drawings, I

Figure 1 represents the back of a picture frame with the picture confined `to the frame by the clasps A, the hooks B, and the spring wires C, the latter resting upon the nails or tacks D. v

Figure 2 represents the parts above named separately. A is a clasp, of a single piece of thin metal, so bent as tolreceive the edge of the paper, or canvas or other material containing the picture, and hold it irmly. Bis a hook or clasp which is to be placed around the clasp A, and through the paper or canvas, and also around the piece of elastic wire C, which Wire C is sprung upon the nails or tacks D, and there held firmly, thus Securing a smooth, unwrinkled surface for thepicture.

vSome of the peculiar advantages of this method are,iirst, in pictures framed Without glass in front, these clasps and springs readily stretch the picture to its true position in the frame; lsecond,rit is a very simple andv inexpensive method of securing a smooth surface to a pictureframed without glass; third, it can be readily removed, (the picture can be,) and without injury lto the paper or the canvas; fourth, the method is very much less expensive than those heretofore mostly employed; requiring no extra canvas for the back of the picture frame, nor extra parts to the frames themselves to secure the perfect fitting of the picture, or the good condition ofthe paper or canvas containing the picture when-framed.

N ovv, having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of clasps A, with hooks or clasps B, and wire springs C, supported upon nails or tacks D, operating in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

S. W. HANKS. [L. s.)

Witnesses:

JOHN H. SiMoNns, GEORGE COOKE. 

